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Spitting on deputy costly for Oliver
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Christopher M. Oliver entered guilty pleas to charges of reckless endangerment, evading arrest, resisting arrest, assault, fifth-offense DUI, driving on a revoked license and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A man high on meth has been sentenced to serve half a year behind bars for spitting on a deputy after officers chased him down as he fled in a stolen car.The man, Christopher M. Oliver, 38, entered guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of reckless endangerment, evading arrest, resisting arrest, assault, fifth-offense DUI, driving on a revoked license and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was ordered to serve six months of a four-year sentence, pay $3,450 plus court costs, lose his driver license for eight years, make $1,221 restitution for the stolen car, and perform eight hours public service work.Oliver fled when sheriff’s investigator Steven Carpenter pulled behind him after discovering Oliver was behind the wheel of a stolen Dodge Neon. Carpenter tried to stop him in the Walmart parking lot, but Oliver didn’t oblige.“The vehicle fled, nearly striking various people and vehicles in the Walmart parking lot,” Carpenter said.
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Pacesetters building inches closer to surplus
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The location formerly known as the Pacesetters building is one successful read away from being declared surplus by the City of McMinnville. During Tuesday evening’s regularly scheduled Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, the matter was brought forth after it had been recommended by the Building and Grounds Committee in the last February meeting. The committee determined, through data collected by a void analysis, the property was best used as retail or commercial real estate rather than repurposed by the city.
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